By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Founded in late 2021, Cooperative Ventures is a venture capital fund jointly launched by CHS and GROWMARK, two of the largest farmer-owned agricultural supply cooperatives in North America. The fund has dual objectives – to back innovative solutions and emerging technologies with the potential to positively impact farming, and […]
photo credit: Bridgestone By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Ok, so this isn’t technically investment deal news, but how often do we get to discuss guayule farming and natural rubber production? Almost never! If you’re anything like me, your first thought might have been, ‘I’ve never heard of guayule…’ So let’s start there. Native to […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Containerized vertical farming pioneer Freight Farms announced it closed on a $17.5 million Series B3 co-led by Aliaxis SA, a provider of inventive fluid management solutions that ensure access to water and energy, and Ospraie Ag Science, a leading investor in agtech companies providing smarter, more sustainable ag solutions. […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Founded in 2016 in partnership with private equity firm Trilantic North America, Boulder, Colorado-based Sunrise Strategic Partners (SSP) provides growth equity and expertise to emerging, authentic brands with $20-$50 million in revenue in the sustainable and healthy living space. Successful investments by SSP include Kodiak Cakes, which SSP helped raise […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Australia’s Vow Food is tackling the challenges of hunger, food security, human health, and environmental degradation through ethically expanding the diversity of our options by using animal cells to grow meat in a laboratory. If you could try alpaca, or water buffalo, or even an entirely new type of […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The UK has a new specialist investment manager in Isara, which has just announced the launch of its maiden fund – a £300 million (US$354.7 million) investment vehicle geared to improve the efficiency, quality, and sustainability of food supply systems across the UK, Ireland, and Western Europe. Fully backed […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company has made its first investment in a farmland strategy fund, committing $50 million to the Nuveen Global Farmland Fund Lux SCSp managed by Nuveen Natural Capital. As a land-focused asset manager, Nuveen has more than 35 years of experience in the field, and today, […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Peptyde Bio, the first company spun out of the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center by Danforth Technology Company (DTC), a wholly owned subsidiary formed by the Danforth Center in February of this year, announced it has closed on an oversubscribed $1.2 million Pre-Seed round backed by Danforth Technology Company, […]
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Unconventional Ag Media Stable, with teams across the U.S., and in London, Singapore, and Bermuda, is on a mission to change the way the world understands and manages volatile commodity prices. They offer advanced technology whereby they deliver price risk management solutions for commodities where no futures markets exist. By employing […]
By Michelle Pelletier Marshall, Global AgInvesting Media This is one venture capital company that lives up to its goal of investing in the vision of its entrepreneurs, of those who exhibit the audacity and know-how to grow great companies with products or services that satisfy real needs in leading markets, like agriculture. This is Champel […]
By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Ranch land accounts for about 28 percent of the more than 600 million acres that make up the U.S. landmass. Unlike tropical forests that sequester most of their carbon in vegetation, grazing land ecosystems hold as much as 90 percent of its carbon in the soil, according to the […]
photo credit: EIB By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) have forged their first agreement for direct capital support. Following decades of general cooperation between the two organizations, the EIB has agreed to commit €500 million (US$515.43 million) in financing to support […]
